Political and business media, pundits, and experts continue to cite prediction market odds as a credible forecast for the upcoming presidential election, regularly pointing to betting odds on ...

Here, we use a linear regression to map face descriptors on a political orientation scale and then use this mapping to predict political orientation for a previously unseen face," the study also said.

But beyond their use in public policy and social science research, political prediction markets serve an invaluable public good. If anything, the CFTC should be lifting its restrictions on ...

A U.S. federal appeals court halted Kalshi's brand-new political prediction markets, heeding the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's request for an emergency stay after the regulator lost a ...

Lichtman gave USA TODAY one more reason he – and Americans from coast to coast – might be so interested in political predictions. “It's fun. It's interesting. I've been doing this for 40 years.

The CFTC is working to ban political prediction markets. Its current goal: Get a federal appeals court to keep one from launching while it argues a judge was mistaken in overturning its rejection ...